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Re:Setting up a packaging environment for Alpine Linux (intr... by schemescape on Monday March 27, 2023 @11:50AM (#35328218)
How big is the minimal install for non-Alpine distributions?

Other than Puppy Linux and Alpine, every “minimal” distro I’ve tried has been annoyingly huge.

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Re:Setting up a packaging environment for Alpine Linux (intr... by tristor on Monday March 27, 2023 @12:24PM (#35328655)
To Canonical's credit, minimal Ubuntu is pretty small, unfortunately it bloats quickly when you start installing packages for dependencies. Minimal Ubuntu clocks in around 30MB, comparable Alpine images are around 5MB, both are significantly smaller than a typical distro installation. Packaged our software on Ubuntu takes 400MB and around 45MB on Alpine, so the base image for minimal Ubuntu is 6x larger than Alpine and the packaged image is nearly 10x larger than Alpine.
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Re:Setting up a packaging environment for Alpine Linux (intr... by stuff4ben on Monday March 27, 2023 @01:12PM (#35329325)
The latest UBI9-based version of ubi-micro is 24.3MB on disk. Still a bit bigger than Alpine's 7.05MB on disk. In my case, it's not enough to notice and anything under 100MB is perfectly fine.
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